"Playing that fully embraces the Messiaen spirit in demanding works."

"Technical perfection aside, it is the sheer musicality of Bonaventure's interpretations that brings his performances alive, and which make complete poetic sense of even Messiaen's most abstract gestures. Moments that openly bow to serial dogma are given soulful shape; they sing rather than preach. And, where the composer's famous birdsong figurations make their many appearances, Bonaventure colours them with shades of ecstasy and lustre."

"Michael Bonaventure is a superb executant and colourist, and Delphian’s sound engineering is of an exceptionally high standard."

"Michael Bonaventure, at the organ of St Giles’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, pays due regard to the drama, the mysticism, the reverence and the colour of Messiaen’s writing, producing thoroughly involving mysterious and visceral accounts of this stunning music."

"The effect is quite spellbinding: intricate, harsh, beautifully articulated and with a vivid sense of darkness and light. Realising the formidable technical complexity of this music is the easy part; unlocking its linear musicality is the real challenge, and it’s one met impressively here."

THE ORGAN

"If an authentic French atmosphere is a little lacking, this is more than compensated by the strength and conviction of these superbly clear and articulate performances of some of Messiaen's most rhythmically and texturally complex music...Particularly striking are the slow-moving sections of dissonant harmonies finally bursting into pure diatonic chords, overwhelming in their mystic radiance."